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Old February 3rd, 2018, 01:35 PM   #6962
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Kevin here. There are different ways of going from one Australian city to other cities. There is Highway 1 which circumnavigates all of Australia. There are regular trains, and there are commercial jet aircraft. Has anyone thought of building a mag-lev train? This type of train is supported by a strong magnetic field. Since there is little friction tremendous speeds can be attained. A typical mag-lev train can move at 600 kilometers per hour. That means that it would take just 4 and 1/2 hours to go from Brisbane to Perth. Of course building such a train would be an enormous expenditure, but it could be done.
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